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Britney Spears
June 25, 2021
Jessica M. Goldstein
We All Tried to Control Britney
The pop star is attempting to end her oppressive conservatorship, but it’s not just her father and a judge who robbed her of agency.
February 12, 2021
Sara Luterman
The Darker Story Just Outside the Lens of Framing Britney Spears
The documentary and #FreeBritney movement treat the pop star’s conservatorship as strange and exceptional. The truth is much more troubling.
May 16, 2019
Jo Livingstone
Freeing Britney Spears
The pop star has spent more than a decade in legal bondage. How did this happen?
August 29, 2016
Clio Chang
Questions we all (I) had after watching the VMAs.
June 4, 2015
Naomi Fry
Turn Off Your Brain, Put Your Ethics on Hold, the 'Entourage' Movie Is Here
January 18, 2013
Noreen Malone
Judge Not: How the Celebrity-Industrial Complex Is Eating Its Tail
November 18, 2011
Alec MacGillis
Herman Cain And The Rule Of Three
June 3, 2011
David Hajdu
The Renaissance of Pop Collaboration
January 7, 2011
David Hajdu
What’s Really Disturbing in Kanye West’s ‘Monster’ Video? Kanye.
December 10, 2008
Sacha Zimmerman Scoblic
Pink Panther
September 14, 2007
The New Republic Staff
Like Britney, Bush Is A Flop

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